Are you confused and intrigued by all of the memes and jokes about Donald Trump’s VP nominee, J.D. Vance, having carnal relations with a couch? Effectively, you’re not alone. Throughout his Late Present monologue on Thursday, Stephen Colbert unpacked the web discourse surrounding Vance and his fictional fancying of furnishings.
Colbert shouted out the Related Press for bringing the Vance-couch dialog into the general public sphere through a fact-check article titled “No, J.D. Vance Did Not Have Intercourse With a Sofa.” The rumor, Colbert defined, was unfold by numerous social media accounts alleging that Vance described having intercourse with a sofa in his ebook, Hillbilly Elegy. The web has run wild with the made-up declare, with increasingly more folks making memes and jokes about Vance’s supposed predilection for plush furnishings.
The Late Present host joined in, joking that Vance shouldn’t be the one politician to be accused of sexual relations with an inanimate object. He then performed a doctored clip of President Invoice Clinton saying, “I didn’t have sexual relations with that ottoman.” (Ottomans are having a second—a supply lately instructed Vainness Truthful that third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s associates would joke: “It’s secure to say he would sleep with an ottoman.”) Colbert went on so as to add that Vance would by no means sleep with a sofa as a result of he’s a religious non secular conservative. “He is aware of it’s Adam and Eve, not Raymour & Flanigan,” mentioned Colbert.
Jokes apart, Colbert lamented how massive an issue misinformation will be within the digital age. “Even a well-meaning fact-check can wind up amplifying a false story, so all of us, all of us—please—have duty to cease the unfold of vicious rumors like ‘J.D. Vance had intercourse with a sofa,’” he mentioned, direct to digicam. “As a result of it’s merely not true, which is why we now have to refuse to make use of the hashtag #CushionPushinJDVance.”
On the finish of his monologue, Colbert highlighted a “troubling twist” to the Vance-couch dialog: the AP has eliminated its fact-check. “Which may imply solely one among two issues: Both the unique story doesn’t meet the AP’s rigorous requirements,” he mentioned, “Or J.D. Vance had intercourse with a sofa!” You be the decide.
It’s not serving to Republicans with their sense of purchaser’s regret the place Vance is worried.
